CS297 Proposal

Incorporating WordNet in an Information Retrieval System

Shailesh Padave (shaileshpadave49@gmail.com)

Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett

Description:

Wordnet is a large lexical database of English language. George A. Miller began this project at Princeton University.
Wordnet groups english words into set of synonyms called synsets;provides short, general definitions and records the various semantic relations between the synonym sets.
Yioop is a PHP search engine and open source.Yioop! can be configured as either a general purpose search engine for the whole Web or it can be configured to provide search results for a set of URLs or domains.
Query rewriting algorithms can be used as a form of query expansion, by combining the user's original query with automatically generated rewrites.
In this project, we are going to use WordNet to implement different query rewriting techniques for the Yioop! search engine. We systematically analyse the performance of these techniques versus existing search results in Yioop!.